Adaptive management needs people within organizations that can learn flexibly and be adaptive. Unfortunately, people are not generally very good at changing thinking or understanding or translating such change into doing ...

Fluctuations in adenylate energy charge (AEC) have been detected in the different size fractions of the marine microorganisms classified as microplankton sampled from four stations in Sevastopol Bay that opens into the ...

Microbial culturability can be ephemeral. Cells are not merely either dead or alive but can adopt physiological states in which they appear to be (transiently) non-culturable under conditions in which they are known normally ...

The anticipated complexity of multifunctional grasslands with environment-friendly and sustainable management practices demands better understanding of traits, their interactions, and their genetic control. Intergeneric ...

Microbial transformations in the rumen ecosystem have a major impact on our ability to meet the challenge of reducing the environmental footprint of ruminant livestock agriculture, as well as enhancing product quality. ...

This book is essential reading for all those involved in forage conservation and provides a fascinating insight into current practices and the science underpinning forage conservation. Key subject areas include opportunities ...

Tropical C4 grasses from the genus Miscanthus are believed to have great potential as biomass crops. However, Miscanthus species are essentially undomesticated, and genetic, molecular and bioinformatics tools are in very ...

Most of the world’s supply of legumes is cultivated under adverse conditions that make this commercially important crop susceptible to the vagaries of nature and damaging stresses. Genetic manipulation has become a proven ...

In this report, we describe the glutathione transferase (GST) gene family in the dengue vector Aedes aegypti and suggest a novel role for a new class of mosquito GSTs. Twenty-six GST genes are present in Ae. aegypti, two ...

Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition - Australia Conference will bring together animal nutrition experts to discuss issues that are of importance to the industry and are at the forefront of research and the development of ...

We used AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) markers to analyse changes in population genetic differentiation (‘genetic shift’) over time in red and white clover germplasm, and to assess the effect of contrasting ...

We used AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) markers to analyse changes in population genetic differentiation ('genetic shift') over time in red and white clover germplasm, and to assess the effect of contrasting ...

Timing divergence events allow us to infer the conditions under which biodiversity has evolved and gain important insights into the mechanisms driving evolution. Cichlid fishes are a model system for studying speciation ...

Ageing in green plants differs in some fundamental ways from the process in animals. The seasonal cycle and persistence of a plant is governed by a combination of the determinate or indeterminate status of meristems (growth ...

Arthropod filiform hairs respond to air particle movements and are among the most sensitive animal sensory organs. In many species, they are tuned to detect predators or prey and trigger escape or prey capture behaviours. ...